one of the biggest TV shows of the 1970s, set in the American Midwest of the 1950s. LikeThe Andy Griffith Show, Happy Daysalso originated from a backdoor pilot that aired as part of the anthology comedy seriesLove, American Style. The segment, “Love and the Television Set,” was an...
Adept at playing average Joes with an inquisitive or irascible streak, Bosley found the perfect apotheosis of that persona playing Howard Cunningham, the perpetually exasperated but kind-hearted dad on "Happy Days" (ABC, 1974-1984). The show's staggering popularity ensured that Bosley would be ...
US sitcom Happy Days was supposed to be about Richie Cunningham and his family. But Ron Howard's naive schoolboy charm was eclipsed by his buddy Arthur Fonzarelli, aka The Fonz. Ladies man and all-round – dare we say definitive – cool guy, Fonzie quickly became the focal point for the...
TV movies based on true stories seemed to be a specialty for Friedrich in the beginning; who soon appeared in the wacked-out drug scare propaganda movie The Death of Richie (1977), and later played the brother of a girl who had lapsed into coma in In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan (...